SixI WAS BACK ON MY USUAL homicide investigations after that.
And I got a postcard from Tess a couple of months later. She had moved the company back to Iowa and was running it from there. It seems you can do everything online these days. So the postcard was a nice touch.
I checked into “Chuck” and found there was no grad student with that name working in AI studies or robotics. There was a program that had nearly mastered ad design, but had been shut down when the last research paper was published and the students moved on. The professor told me it still looked promising, but would take a lot of work.
No other “bodies” turned up cremated at mortuaries since. At least none that couldn’t be traced to an actual accident or death.
Then one day, I got a job offer from a private investigati
